General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line of gas-powered and

GM has appointed Aurora co-founder and product boss Sterling Anderson as the automaker’s executive vice president of global product and chief product officer.

Another day, another Tesla defector heads to Detroit. This time, it's none other than Sterling Anderson, one of the OGs who headed up Tesla's early Autopilot program until he left in 2016 to co-found the autonomous trucking company, Aurora.

General Motors Co. on Monday appointed a former Tesla Inc. leader and the co-founder of a self-driving vehicle company to oversee global products at the Detroit automaker, which has struggled to match electric and self-driving technology offered by Elon Musk's Tesla.